It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share
A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share
Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
